‘Fangoria’ Magazine to Return from the Grave Following Cinestate Acquisition

Feb 17, 2018

Horror fans will be happy to know Fangoria Magazine will be making a return to provide you with all the film news, previews, reviews and other macabre goodness you came to love over the decades. Following a discontinuation of the mag back in 2016, Texas-based Cinestate has now purchased all rights to the magazine as well as the entire catalog of issues dating back thirty nine years. The game plan is to bring Fangoria back to print as a high quality glossy quarterly. Cinestate also acquired “assets and trademarks” to Fangoria’s companion fantasy/SF mag Starlog. Look for Fangoria’s return to store shelves this October.

From the announcement:

Fangoria Magazine is returning from its digital grave and back into print where it belongs. Thanks to a new investment, a new Editor-in-Chief, and a new Publisher, the world’s highest-profile horror movie magazine is reemerging as a collectible quarterly with the first issue set to drop this fall in time for Halloween.

Cinestate, the Texas-based entertainment company, completed the deal to acquire all the assets and trademarks of the Fangoria brand, including the magazine, from The Brooklyn Company. Cinestate CEO Dallas Sonnier diligently courted the previous publisher Thomas DeFeo for several months, with the two signing an agreement that turned over the rights to Sonnier & Cinestate.

Sonnier’s first move as the new Publisher was to hire his favorite film writer Phil Nobile Jr. as the Editor-in-Chief of Fangoria Magazine. Nobile comes to Fangoria from his role as Editor-At-Large for the website Birth.Movies.Death., and as a writer/producer for Stage 3 Productions in Philadelphia, where he created a feature-length documentary on John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN. Nobile will also act as the Creative Director for the entire Fangoria brand.

“There needs to be a Fangoria,” says Nobile. “The magazine was a constant presence in the genre since 1979 – and then one day it was gone. That felt, to us, tragically incorrect. Fango was, for multiple generations, a privileged window into the world of horror. It gave us access to filmmakers’ processes and secrets, opened our eyes to movies we might have otherwise missed, and nurtured a wave of talent that’s out there driving the genre today. I’m proud and excited to be part of the team that’s bringing this institution back.”

Fangoria magazine will return with a fresh issue this October, just in time for Halloween.

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